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To Comiket and back

January 2nd, 2007
Author Kevin Melrose

Hellbon, Vol. 2The Unlimted Hirai-ath

At one of my new favorite blogs, AltJapan, Matt Alt attends Tokyo’s biannual Comiket — it’s the world’s largest comic convention — and returns with several “hot picks.” I would love to read the two pictured above: Hellbon, Vol. 2, a fan-produced Hellboy comic, and Mugen no Hiraiasu, which features Tony the Tiger “beating the shit out of various anime characters with a nail-studded baseball bat.”

 
5 Responses to “To Comiket and back”
  1. Tim O'Shea Says:

    Kevin, stoopid question of the day: are the Hellboy and Tony the Tiger tales officially sanctioned, or are we talking total copyright infringement here? I imagine the cereal icon going all Tarantino in particular strays well beyond the original character development. :)

  2. Kevin Melrose Says:

    They’re fan-produced works (essentially, fanfic). So, no, they’re not sanctioned.

  3. Tim O'Shea Says:

    I love that there’s a world where cereal mascots evolve into fanfic (hearkening back to that piece B@N linked to a few weeks back as well).

  4. JK Parkin Says:

    If you find that Tony the Tiger comic somewhere, let me know …

  5. Maverick Chan Says:

    I have to say that the Hong Kong Comic Festival is the biggest comic show in the world…it makes San Diego’s numbers look like a community center comic con.

    http://www.hkcomicsfest.com/pressrelease.html

    Even though Chinese comics dont seem to fly outside of Asia, they do pretty well in their own region.

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